Seminars

Spring 2013

• 6^th February: Prof. Guilherme Carmona (University of Surrey)
  "Bounded Memory Folk Theorem"
• 13^th February: Prof. Martin Cripps (UCL)
  "Queues and Strategic Experimentation"
• 14^th February: Prof. Mike Wickens (University of Cardiff and University of York)
  "Modelling Sovereign Credit Ratings"
• 20^th February: Dr. Ana-Maria Dumitru (University of Surrey)
  "Bootstrapping Tests for Jumps with an Application to Test Averaging"
• 27^th February: Dr. Ignacio Monzon (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
  "Observational Learning with Position Uncertainty"
• 8^th March: Dr.Radek Stefanski (Universite’ de Laval)
  "Structural Transformation and Pollution"
• 13^th March: Prof. Martin Weale (Bank of England and University of Queen Mary)
  "The Effect of Lifelong Learning on Men’s Wages"
• 20^th March: Prof. Guido Ascari (Universita’ di Pavia)
  "Transparency, Expectations Anchoring and the Inflation Target"

Autumn 2012

• 3^rd October: Dr. Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University)
  "Media Influence and Political Power: Evidence from the Rise of Berlusconi"
  
• 10^th October: Dr. Daniele Massacci (University of Surrey and EIEF)
  "Threshold Estimation from a Generated Auxiliary Regression: With an Application to U.S. Stock"
  
• 24^th October: Dr. Francesco Nucci (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
  "Performance Pay and Shifts in Macroeconomic Correlations"
  
• 31^st October: Dr. Archishman Chakraborty (York University)
  "Policy Persuasion and Electoral Competition"
  
• 31^st October: Dr. Francesca Rossi (University of Southampton)
  "Improved Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Spatial Autoregressions"
  
• 14^th November: Prof. Patrick Marsh (University of Nottingham)
  "Non-parametric Likelihood Ratio Tests for Goodness-of-Fit and Specification"
  
• 21^st November: Dr Paul Schweinzer (University of York)
  "Labelling Contests with Endogenous Precision"
  
• 21^st November: Dr. Sjur Westgaard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
  "Analysis and Forecasting of Electricity Prices Risks with Quantile Factor Models"
  
• 28^th November: Prof. Antonio Guarino (UCL)
  "Non-parametric Likelihood Ratio Tests for Goodness-of-Fit and Specification"
  
• 06^th December: Prof. Valentina Corradi (University of Warwick)
  "Conditional Alphas and Realized Betas"
  

Spring 2012

• 19^th January: Prof. Grant Hillier (University of Southampton)
  "Inference in Spatial Autoregressive Models"
  
• 1^st February: Dr. Matt Dickson (UCD)
  "Early, late or never? When does parental education impact child outcomes?"
  
• 15^th February: Dr. Emanuel Ornelas (London School of Economics)
  "Institutions and Export Dynamics"
  
• 8^th March: Dr. Francesco Zanetti (Bank of England)
  "Financial Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuation"
  
• 18^th April: Dr. Filippo Ferroni (Banque de France)
  "Structural VAR and Rare Events"
  
• 18^th April: Rebecca Scott (Berkeley)
  "Rational Habits and Gasoline Demand"
  
• 10^th May: Dr. Melinda Morrill (NCSU)
  "Sticking Together During Hard Times? High Unemployment Rates and Marital Stability"
  

Autumn 2011

• 12^th October: Prof. Fabio Canova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  "Bridging cyclical DSGE models and the raw data"
  
• 19^th October: Dr. Giovanni Melina (Surrey and Birkbeck)
  "Fiscal policy and lending relationships" (with Stefania Villa)
  
• 26^th October:Dr. Nicole Tabasso (Surrey)
  "On the mechanism of innovation" (with Christian Ghiglino)
  
• 2^nd November: Prof. Peter Neary (Oxford)
  "Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms" (with Monika Mrazova)
  
• 9^th November: Dr. Paulo Parente (Exeter)
  "A Kernel Based Bootstrap Method for Dependent processes"
  
• 16^th November: Dr. Michele Lombardi (Surrey and Maastricht)
  "Partially Honest Nash Implementation: Characterisation Results"
  
• 23^th November: Mr. Luca Fornaro (LSE and PSE)
  "Financial Crises, Exchange Rates and Macro-prudential Policies"
  
• 7^th December: Prof. Andy Dickerson (Sheffield)
  "Minimum Wages in the UK, and the Relative Wages and Productivity of Young Workers" (with Steven McIntosh)
  
• 13^th December: Dr. Nuno Galo (Banco de España)
  

Spring 2011

• 12th January: Prof Tom Weyman Jones (Loughborough University)
  "Model Productivity Change with a Short Run Cost Function"
  
• 17th January: Dr David Broadstock (RIEM): SEEC seminar
  "Global Oil Prices and their Impact on Chinese Energy and Resource Related Stock Values"
  
• 19th January: Dr Brian Bell (London School of Economics)
  "Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves "
  
• 26th January: Dr Danielle Massacci (University of Surrey)
  "An Asymptotically Smoothed Two-Stage Nonlinear Least Squares Estimator for Threshold Regression Models with Endogenous Variables"
  
• 7th February: Dr Gael Martin (Monash University)
  "Probabilistic Forecasts of Volatility and its Risk Premia"
  
• 16th February: Dr Filippo Ferroni (Bank of France)
  "Multiple Filtering Devices for the Estimation of Cyclical DSGE Models"
  
• 23th February: Dr Alessandro Flamini (University of Sheffield)
  "Transmission Lags and Optimal Monetary Policy"
  
• 2nd March: Prof Francis Green (Institute of Education)
  "Employee Involvement, Technology and Evolution in Job Skills: A Task-Based Analysis"
  
• 8th March: Mr. Richard De Caux (BP Economics Team): SEEC seminar
  "Making Sense of the Oil Market"
  
• 9th March: Dr Jan Podivinsky (University of Southampton)
  "Are Active Labour Market Programmes Least Effective Where They Are Most Needed? The Case of the British New Deal for Young People"
  
• 16th March: Dr Thomas Siedler (DIW)
  "One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior"
  
• 18th March: Mr. Firas Zeineddine (Schlumberger Oil and Gas Seminar): SEEC seminar
  "Are We Running Out of Oil? The Power of Technology"
  
• 23rd March: Prof Catherine Mitchell (University of Exeter)
  
• 30th March: Dr Federico Martellosio (University of Reading)
  "Efficiency of the OLS Estimator in the Vicinity of a Spatial Unit Root"
  
• 6th April: Dr Guy Michaels (London School of Economics)
  "Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil"
  
• 14th April: Alessio Moro (University of Cagliari)
  "Structural Change and Slow-Motion Recoveries"
  
• 11th May: Prof Heather Anderson (Monash University)
  "Structural Change and Slow-Motion Recoveries"
  
• 18th May: Prof Apostolis Philippopoulos (University of Glasgow)
  "Time-consistent fiscal policy under heterogeneity: Conflicting or Common interest?"
• 15th June: Dr George Athanasopoulos (Monash University)
  "Model selection, estimation and forecasting in VAR models with short-run and long-run restrictions"

Autumn 2010

• 20^th October: Cristiano Cantore (University of Surrey)
  "Hours worked and technology shocks. A structural interpretation for the time varying relation"
  
• 3^rd November: Dr Alex Dickson (University of Strathclyde)
  "Entry in thin markets"
  
• 17^th November: Prof Albert Marcet (London School of Economics)
  "Internal Rationality, Imperfect Market Knowledge and Asset Price"
  
• 24^th November: Prof David Paton (University of Nottingham)
  "Parental Consent for Contraception and Teenage Pregnancy in Texas"
  
• 8^th December: Dr Ali Al–Nowaihi (University of Leicester)
  "Composite Prospect Theory"
  

Spring 2010

• 20^th January: Prof Luisa Lambertini (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
  "Expectations-Driven Cycles in the Housing Market" 
  
• 10^th February: Mirko Draca (London School of Economics CEP)
  "Washington`s Revolving Door: Lobbying, Political Connections and the Market for Access" 
  
• 17^th February: Dr Hildegunn Stokke (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
  "Africa: What is the role of investment vs. productivity?"
  
• 24^th February: Dr Shqiponja Telhaj (London School of Economics CEP & University of Sussex)
  "Peer Effects and Ability Sorting in English Secondary Schools"
  
• 3^rd March: Prof Nick Vriend (Queen Mary, University of London)
  "On the Role of Non-equilibrium Focal Points as Coordination Devices"
  
• 10^th March: Dr Daniele Massacci (University of Surrey)
  "Identification and Estimation of Bivariate Simultaneous Discrete Response Model without Sign Restrictions"
  
• 17^th March: Dr Kevin Sheedy (London School of Economics)
  "Equilibrium Government"
  
• 24^th March: Dr Miguel Leon-Ledesma (University of Kent)
  "Efficiency and Frontier Technology in the Aftermath of Recessions: International Evidence"
  
• 28^th April: Prof Martin Ellison (University of Oxford)
  "A Defence of the FOMC"
  
• 9^th June: Dr Ila Patnaik (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi)
  "Exchange Rate Regimes"
   

Autumn 2009

• 21^st October: Dr Vasco Gabriel (University of Surrey)
  "What drives inflation? Testing non-nested specifications of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve" 
• 28^th October: Dr Alfonso Miranda (University of London)
  "Missing Ordinal Covariates with Iinformative Selection" 
• 4^th November: Dr Jevgenijs Steinbuks (University of Cambridge) - SEEC seminar
  "Operational and Investment Response to Energy Prices in OECD Manufacturing: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model" 
• 11^th November: Prof Peter McAdam (University of Surrey - European Central Bank)
  "Shocking Stuff: Technology, Hours and Factor Substitution"
• 18^th November: Prof Tim Worrall (University of Manchester)
  "Dynamic Relational Contracts"
• 25^th November: Prof Mark Harrison (University of Warwick)
  "Forging Success: Soviet Managers and False Accounting, 1943 to 1962"

Spring 2009

• 20st January: Bill Gerard (Leeds)
• 28th January: Nikos Christodoulakis (Bank of Greece and LSE)
• 18th February: Colin Jennings (Strathclyde)
• 25th February: Robin Naylor (Warwick)
• 11th March: Joao Montez (London Business School)

Autumn 2008

• 15th October: Robert Wright (Strathclyde)
• 5th November: Francesca Cornaglia (Queen Mary)
• 19th November: Mike Wickens (York)
• 26th November: Winand Emons (Bern)
• 09th December: Liam Delaney (University College Dublin)

Spring 2008

• March 5th Ian Wooton (Strathclyde)
  “Market Structure and Market Access”
• April 23rd Martyn Andrews (Manchester)
  “Some empirical investigations into why people migrate between UK regions”
• 7th May Catia Batista (Oxford)
  “Why Doesn’t Labour Flow from Poor to Rich Countries?  Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience”

Spring 2007

• 17 January Guy Michaels (LSE)
  "Regional Specialization in the Long Run"
• 31 January J. Peter Neary (Oxford)
  "Revenue Tariff Reform"
• 14 February Ian Preston (UCL)
  "Electoral Competition and Economic Policy"
• 28 February Victoria Prowse (Oxford)
  "Heterogeneity in Multinomial Choice Models, with an Application to a Study of Employment Dynamics"
• 14 March Neil Rankin (Warwick)
  "Disinflation in an Open-Economy Staggered-Wage DGE Model: Exchange-Rate Pegging, Booms and the Role of Preannouncement"
• 21 March Subrata Ghatak (Kingston)
  "Migration and Trade: The case of UK and CEECs"

Autumn 2006

• 4 October Paul Schweinzer (Bonn)
  "When Queuing is Better than Push and Shove"
• 18 October Tom Crossley (Cambridge)
  "Estimating a Collective Household Model with Survey Data on Financial Satisfaction"
• 1 November Jonathan Temple (Bristol)
  "Competing explanations for underdevelopment: a Bayesian approach"
• 15 November* Paolo Agnolucci (Policy Studies Institute)
  "The Persistency of Oil and Energy Intensities in Industrialised Countries"
• 29 November* Joyce Dargay (Oxford)
  "The Effect of Prices and Income on Car Travel in the UK: A Pseudo-Panel Approach"

Spring 2006

• 21 March* Peter Pearson (Imperial)
  "Long Run Energy Use and Prices in the UK"
• 14 March Iwan Barankay (Essex)
  "Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment”
• 7 February Steve Bond (Nuffield, Oxford)
  "Identification and estimation of Cobb Douglas production parameters from micro data”
• 28 February Alan Duncan (Nottingham)
  "Hours constraints and unobserved heterogeneity in discrete labour supply models"
• 24 January Kevin Denny (University College Dublin)
  "The economic consequences of being left-handed: some sinister results"

Autumn 2005

• Tuesday 29 November: Peter McAdam (European Central Bank)
  "Medium Run Redux"
• Tuesday 22 November: Alistair Munro (Royal Holloway)
  'What's love got to do with it? Testing economic theories of the household'
• Tuesday 1 November: Sandra McNally (CEP/LSE)
  "New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?"
• Tuesday 18 October: Rob Simmons (Lancaster)
  "The abortion-crime link: evidence from England and Wales
• Tuesday 4 October: Helen Weeds (Essex)
  "Public Service Broadcasting"

Spring 2005

• 7 June, Robert Gausden* (Portsmouth)  
  "Oil Prices and Macroeconomic Performance"
• 15 March, Elisabetta Iossa (Brunel)  
  "Court versus Arbitration"
• 22 February, Frank Windmeijer (IFS)  
  "Cigarette Taxation and Smoking Behaviour in the UK"

* SEEC/Departmental Seminars